Dickens.
London: Guild Publishing, 1990. 8vo. Published simultaneously with the Sinclair-Stevenson edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. D/w faded on spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
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Empires of the Plain. Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon.
London: HarperCollins, 2003. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Blind embossed round ownership on title-page. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Jane Austen's England.
New York: Viking, 2013. 8vo. Second impression. Original quarter red hardcovers with paper-covered boards, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Mint in dust-wrapper.
Emma. With an Introduction by E. V. Lucas.
London: Oxford University Press, 1929. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1907. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Cloth lightly mottled from being handled. Very good+. #129 in The World's Classics.
Footfalls.
London: Faber and Faber, 1976. 8vo. First edition. Original stapled wraps. Fine.
Imagination Dead Imagine. Translated from the original French by the author.
London: Calder and Boyars Ltd, 1967. 8vo. Second impression. First published in English in 1965. Original flapped papercovers Covers a bit toned and rubbed along edges. Near fine.
Lessness. (Signature series #9). Translated from the original French by the author.
London: Calder & Boyars Ltd, 1970. 8vo. First edition. Original wraps. Covers slightly toned around edges. Near fine.
Poems in English.
London: Calder & Boyars, 1968. 8vo. Second impression. First published in 1961. Original wraps. Covers very slightly rubbed. Near fine.
That Time.
London: Faber and Faber, 1976. 8vo. First edition. Original stapled wraps. Fine.
Three Occasional Pieces.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original stapled wraps. Near fine.
Dante Rediscovered. From Blake to Rodin.
Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 2007. 4to. First edition. Original grey cloth, gilt. Illustrated in colour throughout. Head of spine gently pushed. Top edge of d/w slightly crumpled. Near fine in very good + dust-wrapper.
The Last Love of George Sand. A Literary Biography. Translated from the French by Allison Charette.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2013. 8vo. First US edition. First published in French in 2010. Original black and tan hardcovers, gilt. A few pages creased towards the top corner. Near fine in fine dust-wrapper.
English Inns.
London: Collins, 1944. 8vo. Third impression. Decorated paper boards in dust-wrapper. Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 24 illustrations in black and white. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Britain in Pictures #67.
The Third Reich. A New History.
London: Macmillan, 2000. 8vo. Original black cloth. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Queer.
London: Picador, 1985. 8vo. Second impression. Original black hardcovers. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Mad World. Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead.
London: Harper Press, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original dark blue hardcovers. Colour and black and white photographic sections. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Selected Letters and Journals. In One Volume from the Unexpurgated Twelve Volume Edition. Edited by Leslie A. Marchand.
London: John Murray, 1982. 8vo. First edition. Original red hardcovers, gilt. Bookplate on front paste down. D/w spine slightly faded. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
The Brideshead Generation. Evelyn Waugh and his Friends.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Black and white photographic plate sections. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Disgrace.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1999. 8vo. First edition, second state. Original black cloth. Slightly cocked. Ink ownership on half-title. D/w a little rumpled along the top edge. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. The true first edition has 'Biddles Ltd' given as printer and binder on verso of title page...
Typical Pictures of Indian Natives. Being Reproductions from Specially Prepared Hand-Coloured Photographs with Descriptive Letterpress.
Bombay & London: The "Times of India" Office and Thacker & Co. Ltd., 1898. 4to. Second edition. (First edition printed 5 weeks earlier). Original green cloth decorated in red and black. 24 coloured plates. Boards slightly warped. Covers faded, spotted and soiled. Ink ownership on free endpaper. Short tear to...
Book Collecting. An Introduction to Modern Methods of Literary and Bibliographical Detection. With a Foreword by Andre H. Horn.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1957. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. D/w spine very slightly faded and rubbed at head. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Comedies. Edited with Introduction and Notes by Bonamy Dobrée.
London: Oxford University Press, 1976. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1925. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. D/w by Lynton Lamb. D/w slightly rubbed at extremities. Near fine in near fine dust-wrapper. #276 in The World's Classics.
The Nature of a Crime.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1924. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Spine and edges faded. Offsetting to end papers and very light foxing to prelims. Very good.
Race of the Tiger.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Stamped 'File Copy' on the front paste down and the d/w. D/w rubbed and slightly dust-soiled with '63' (publication year) in ink at top of back joint and a couple of nicks on the top edge. Near fine.....
This Game of Golf. With a Foreword by Bernard Darwin.
London: Country Life, 1948. 4to. First edition. Original green cloth. Illustrated throughout in sepia-toned black and white. Covers patchily faded and browned. Spine torn and split. Dated ink ownership on fly. Good +. From the library of The Right Honourable The Lord Boothby KBE (1900-1986). For once, he has signed...